TODAY

Narrative Exhibition: Private View and Artist’s Talk. Manor House, private view 6pm to 7pm, talk 7pm to 8pm.

A Card from Angela Carter: Susannah Clapp. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Backward Glance: Multi Story Theatre Company. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Islam in the West: Key Issues in Multiculturalism. St Margaret’s Church, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Applecart: The Life, Death and Disappearance of the Crowd Gatherer. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 9.30pm to 10.30pm.

TOMORROW

Suitcase Circus Walkabout. All Saints School, 9.40am to 10.15am and 1.30pm to 2pm.

Cloth of Dreams with Libellule. All Saints School, 10am to 10.45am and 2pm to 2.45pm.

Day School. Ilkley Tennis Club, 10am–4pm.

Unbounded Moor: Symposium with Simon Armitage, Words, Land and Landscape. West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth BD22 8EN, 10am to 4.30pm.

Eureka! the Gross Lab. All Saints School, 10.15am, 11.30am, 2.15pm and 3.30pm.

Rick Vanes’ Story Writing Workshop, All Saints School, 10.30am to 11.30am and 12noon to 1pm.

Adventures of Perseus Workshop with Multi Story Theatre Co. All Saints School, 10.30am to 11.30am.

Suitcase Circus Performance. Bandstand on the Grove, 10.45am to 11.15am.

Spin a silly Story with Chol Theatre. All Saints School, 11am, 11.45am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 2.45pm and 3.30pm.

‘Narrative’: Visual Art Masterclass with Artist Helen Jones. Manor House, 11am to 1pm.

Ella! with Alex T Smith. All Saints School, 11.30am to 12.15pm.

Suitcase Circus: Circus Skills Workshop. All Saints School, 11.45am to 12.45pm and 2.45pm to 3.45pm.

Zizou Corder: Lion Boy. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, noon to 12.45pm.

The Bog People: Mud Pie Arts. All Saints School, 12.15pm to 1pm and 1.45pm to 2.30pm.

Responses to ‘Silk’: Daljt Nagra and Raman Mundair Poetry Reading, Cartwright Hall Museum, Bradford BD9 4NS, 1.30pm, 2.15pm and 3pm Darwin’s Ghosts: Rebecca Stott. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

Poetry for Lunch: Anthony Joseph and Seán Hewitt. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 1.30pm to 2.15pm.

Make your Own Paper! All Saints School, 2pm to 3.30pm.

Alex T Smith Drawing and Making Workshop. All Saints School, 2pm to 3pm.

Will the Future Have Leaves? Bandstand on The Grove, 2pm to 3pm.

Bird Sense: Tim Birkhead. St Margaret’s Hall, 2.30pm to 3.30pm.

Anthony Joseph: Masterclass. Manor House, 3pm to 5pm.

My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You: Louisa Young. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 3pm to 4pm.

The Barefoot Shepherdess and Women of the Dales: Walter Swan and Yvette Huddleston. St Margaret’s Hall, 4.30pm to 5.30pm.

Rebel Heart: Moira Young. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 4.30pm to 5.15pm.

Atomic! With Guy Bass. All Saints School, 4pm to 4.45pm.

Raven Hearts: Fiona Dunbar. All Saints School, 4pm to 4.45pm.

Multi Story Theatre Co: The Adventures of Perseus. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 5pm to 6pm.

We Are Poets: Screening. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 5.30pm to 7pm.

‘Lightweight’ Poetry Sphere: Impossible Theatre. Outside Ilkley Playhouse, 7pm to 10.30pm.

Maps of the World: Jerry Brotton. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 7.45pm to 8.45pm.

Speak of Me as I Am: A Conversation with Ira Aldridge. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 8pm to 9.10pm.

A Journey Across the Border: Miles Cain. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 9.15pm to 10.15pm.

The Future is Words: Dead Ink. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 9.30pm to 10.30pm

SUNDAY

Daljit Nagra Masterclass: Joyous Poetry. Rombalds Hotel, 11am to 1pm.

Raman Mundair Masterclass. Craiglands 11am to 1pm Bird Walk with Tim Birkhead. Harewood House, Harewood LS17 9LG 11am to 1pm Freehand Theatre: Little Red. All Saints School, 1.30pm to 2.30pm and 4pm to 5pm.

The House of Fiction: Susan Swingler on Elizabeth Jolley. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

Spreading the Book Love. Otley Courthouse, 1.30pm to 3.15pm.

Taffy Thomas: Fairy Gold. ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 2pm to 3pm.

Young People’s Wordsfest with Celia Rees. Otley Courthouse, 2pm to 6pm.

Writing Poems with Ann and Peter Sansom: Poetry Business Masterclass. Manor House, 2pm to 4pm.

Boff Whalley: Run Wild. Craiglands, 2pm to 3pm.

Daljit Nagra and Raman Mundair: Reading. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 2pm to 4pm Merchant, Soldier, Sage: David Priestland. St Margaret’s Hall, 3pm to 4pm Agatha Christie and Art Deco. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 3.45pm to 4.45pm.

Run with Boff Whalley. Meet outside Craiglands main door, 4pm to 5pm.

Up Beat and Down Dale: Mike Pannett. Craiglands, 4pm to 5pm More Revolting Facts with Mitchell Symons! Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 4.30pm to 5.15pm.

Huracan: Diana McCaulay and Andrea Stuart. St Margaret’s Hall, 5pm to 6pm.

Mathematical Murder Mysteries. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 5.15pm to 6pm.

Democracy, Power and Media Reform: Dan Hind. Craiglands 6pm to 7pm.

Patrick Gale: A Perfectly Good Man. St Margaret’s Hall, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

A Place in History: Colin Philpott and Martin Wainwright. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8

Michelle Paver: Gods and Warriors. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 6.45pm to 7.30pm.

The Early Work of David Hockney: Christopher Sykes. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Tilt presents Amiri Baraka: Performance and In Conversation. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 8pm to 9pm Seeing Poetry. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 9pm to 9.45pm.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9

Lunch with Frances Osborne. The Wheatley Arms, 12noon for 12.30pm to 2.30pm.

Poetry Banquet. Panache Restaurant 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

Comma Press Presents: Pawel Huelle and David Constantine. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Shakespeare’s Local: Pete Brown. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Tales of Royalty and Imagination. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 9pm to 10pm.

Protests, Moans and Megaphones. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside, 9pm to 10pm.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 

Leningrad: Anna Reid. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Poetry Please Ilkley. Christchurch on The Grove, 7.30pm to 8.30pm.